Monday, September 4, 2017

NEW CLASS OF BLACK HOLE FINALLY DISCOVERED

Japanese
astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
(ALMA) in Northern Chile have discovered an intermediate sized black
hole near the centre of our Milky Way. Scientists had long hypothesized
the existence of these medium-sized black holes, but they had been
unable to locate any until now. At the centre of each galaxy,
there lies a supermassive black hole that can weigh as much as ten
billion suns. These black holes are essential to the creation of
galaxies, stars and planets. However, scientists have been unable to
come up with a theory behind their enormous size, especially considering
they began appearing when the universe was quite young. The
identification of the intermediate-type black hole helps explain the
creation of supermassive black holes through the idea of mergers.
Intermediate black holes are suspected to be the seeds of their massive
counterparts - merging together to form a gigantic one. The
black hole that was discovered was found to be hiding behind a cloud of
stellar dust about 195 light years from the Milky Way's centre. This
black hole is about 100,000 times more heavy than out sun.
Read more about this fascinating story at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/04/scientists-discover-strange-form-ofblackhole-heart-milky-way/
Image: EPA/Peter Komka

Article Compiled By: Kyle Tam

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